Sentence examples similar to large scale drought from inspiring English sources

All these large-scale drought and related screening results clearly showed that drought tolerance largely depends on growth stage, severity of drought and the specific environmental conditions.

Another large-scale drought disaster occurred in five provinces of China in 2009 2010 and threatened more than 70 million people with drinking water shortages and barren farmlands.

Examination of this time series reveals two periods; (a) 1982 1993 marked by below average NDVI and persistence of drought with a signature large-scale drought during the 1982 1985 period; and (b) 1994 2003, marked by a trend towards 'wetter' conditions with region-wide above normal NDVI conditions with maxima in 1994 and 1999.

The spatial patterns of the merged annual E and R are consistent with that of P due to the water limitations mainly controlled by P. The interannual variations in these hydrological variables indicate a slight increase in the variables from 1984 to 1998, with a large El Niño event, and a larger decline thereafter as a result of a large-scale drought.

For example, large-scale drought events occurred in 2002 that have reduced the carbon sink by 20%% in the US alone (Xiao et al. 2011), on the other hand, CH4 and N2O emissions have not been greatly changed, resulting in a positive GWP in this year (Fig.  1).

Large-scale droughts and floods may bring severe damage to agricultural and industrial activities.

They added that previous studies showed that fires in the region increased after large-scale droughts in 1998 and 2005.

However, to our knowledge, no study involving large-scale drought-related gene screening and EST-SSR identification has been published to date.

Some prominent climate experts have argued that the technology the British scientists were testing, were it ever to be used on a large scale, could exacerbate extreme drought and flooding in parts of the world.

The two-mile-thick blanket of pollution over South Asia may be causing premature deaths in India on a large scale, and both flooding and drought in other areas, according to a United Nations-sponsored study being released Monday.

Overall, this recovery appears to have been faster for conifers than angiosperms, which is consistent with the results of a recent large scale study on forest resilience to drought across the Northern hemisphere (Gazol et al. 2017).